African Painted Dogs Exhibit Now A Memorial

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The zoo reopened to the public Tuesday, but the area where 2-year-old Maddox Derkosh fell into the African painted dogs exhibit has been cordoned off and the dogs are in quarantine for 30 days.

The area where Derkosh fell Sunday has been blocked off to the public.

Flowers hang on the bamboo fencing, bouquets of flowers lay below, as well as candles.

It is now a memorial, the attraction is no longer the African dogs, but the site where Derkosh died after falling off a wooden railing into the exhibit.

He was then attacked and killed by the animals.

Jeff Barker said he did not know the Derkosh family, but lives just a few streets away from them in White Hall.

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